Arsenal's novel tactics caught the attention of British football professionals, and their wonderful combination in the game also refreshed the Premier League audience, who were accustomed to the rapid transition between attack and defense of various Premier League teams. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

However, none of this is about the Arsenal players, who will have to prepare for the second stage of the Champions League group stage immediately after the game against Middlespor.

In the first stage of the group stage, the draw of the Arsenal team was obviously unlucky, they were divided into the group that can be said to be the top group in the first stage of the group stage, Fiorentina and Barcelona are not easy opponents to deal with, Solna also has geographical advantages, the cold weather will make many teams uncomfortable, but the Arsenal team played well in the first stage of the game, away beat "Fei Leng Cui", and then beat Barcelona at Camp Nou, which can be said to impress other European teams.

Although Liu Han's departure caused Arsenal to encounter some danger in the next games, they eventually got through the danger and advanced to the last 16 of the Champions League in second place in Group E.

After the restructuring of the Champions League, in order to enhance the popularity of the Champions League in Europe, UEFA has set up a second round of group stage, and the teams that enter the top 16 are divided into four groups again, playing a double round-robin game of home and away, and finally decide the quarterfinals.

Arsenal's luck in the second phase of the draw has improved, they were placed in Group A, the opponents in the same group are Porto in the Portuguese League, Valencia in La Liga and Bordeaux in Ligue 1, which can be said to be a relatively good group, only Valencia is outstanding in the same group, as for Porto and Bordeaux, Portuguese Liga and Ligue 1 have not been the mainstream leagues in Europe.

Arsenal's first opponent will be Porto, the dominant side of the Portuguese league, although it is quite famous among South American players, but this is aimed at less famous South American stars, who are generally well-known in the five major leagues, and the South American players in the Porto team are mainly Brazilian players who also speak Portuguese.

Arsenal, who have concluded their clash with Middlesbrough, host Porto three days later, with their home stadium still at Wembley Stadium in London, due to the fact that the crowd in Highbury is too close to the stadium to meet UEFA's safety requirements.

Porto are a new rival for Arsenal, who have been away from Europe for a while, having barely played against Portuguese sides before, but thanks to the availability of information now, Arsene Wenger has been able to find footage of recent Porto games.

Arsene Wenger saw in the footage of the game that Porto's style of play is always technical, and the squad dominated by Brazilian and Portuguese players is full of romantic attention, but at the same time it also means that their tactical execution ability is not outstanding, and more relies on the excellent individual ability of the players.

For such a team, maybe Wenger will be worried in the past, he is afraid that his old back line will be broken into scum by the opponent, but now Wenger is not worried at all, with Liu Han, Wenger can completely block the Porto team in the midfield, plus Vieira, two strong men who can't run will make Porto's frontcourt attack fall apart.

Arsenal's opponent Porto is also studying their opponents, for Porto's young coach Antonio Oliveira, Arsenal is not an easy opponent to deal with, especially Liu Han, the tall Oriental man showed strength in the game to make Antonio quite worried, his team's backline, dominated by Brazilian players, is estimated to be difficult to stop the super center striker attack, it seems that he has to fight with the opponent to attack.

Antonio was unfortunate that the footage of his study of the Arsenal team was a video of their Champions League game, and he had no idea that Liu Han had already changed his position.

Wembley Stadium, with the referee's whistle, the second phase of the 99-00 Champions League group stage officially began.

Porto attacked Arsenal from the start, but their attack was shattered by the back line of Liu Han and Patrick Vieira.

Porto coach Antonio did not expect that the Arsenal team would let Liu Han serve as a midfielder in this game, and the formation of 352 also made Porto's previous arrangements useless.

Because the strikers are mainly dexterous types, Porto's offensive arrangement in this game is more based on central penetration, but I didn't expect the Arsenal team to completely restrain the opponent's central penetration as if they knew Porto's arrangement.

Liu Han did not hesitate to run physically after returning to the back position to block Porto's attack, while Vieira sat in the middle to check and fill in the gaps for Liu Han.

In such a situation, Arsenal's usual quick transition between attack and defense played out, their counter-attacks were simple and efficient, the midfielders did not stick to the ball, and against the less competitive Portuguese side, Thierry Henry began to behave like an orthodox centre-forward.

In the first 30 minutes of the game, Liu Han broke the ball in the backfield and made a long pass directly with his big foot, and Henry in the front court held on to the Portuguese defender to stabilize the ball, and then suddenly handed the ball to Bergkamp with a clever back-heel pass, who did not stop the ball on the line of the penalty area and scored directly with a low shot, and the Arsenal team got off to a good start.

The first half ended with Arsenal taking the lead.

Going into the second half, Porto continued to intensify their attack, but they were attacked by Arsenal at the start of the second half.

Liu Han went straight to the front at the beginning of the second half, and after Ljungberg went down from the wing, Liu Han pressed the opponent's three defenders to score with a header to make the score 2-0.

In the next game, Arsene Wenger transferred troops, Arsenal's formation changed to 442, Liu Han retreated to midfield, Henry was replaced, replaced by Suker, Arsenal slowed down the tempo and played control with Porto.

In the face of the increasingly sophisticated Wenger, Antonio still looked a little immature, not only was the tactical play guessed by Wenger, but also was restrained by the tactics arranged by Wenger throughout the game.

In the end, the opening match of Group A of the second group stage of the Champions League ended with a victory for Arsenal.

In the other Group A match on the same day, Valencia beat Bordeaux 3-0 at home, and the French made good red wine, but football was much worse in the league.

There were also two Group B games on the day, with United reaching Barcelona again in a group since last season, with Manchester United beating Rotterdam 4-0 away and Barcelona being held to a draw away by Hertha Berlin. (To be continued.) )